High growth is expected in the enterprise data market due to the sociopolitical scenario in India, which has led to many investments by both national and international corporations. New technologies such as Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) are emerging in the global market and are also making inroads into India and these will impact the hardware market. Ethernet is gradually becoming the choice of network for most Indian enterprises.

Key Findings

-The enterprise data services market is expected to witness a high growth rate of % and is sized to be at INR million in FY2015. - The main reason for growth can be attributed to the socio-political scenario which has opened up the markets and stabilized the currency, leading to many investments by national and international corporations. - Software-defined networking (SDN) is emerging in a big way on the global front and will impact the hardware market in India, especially impacting participants such as Cisco, Juniper, and HP. - The Local Cable Operator (LCO) digitization project continues to offer a key source of revenue for most service providers that are utilizing the infrastructure and channel relationship to push Internet services as well to tier II and III regions. - With Ethernet slowly becoming a technology standard, organizations such as Avaya and Cisco are moving in to offer newer variants such as the Ethernet Weave or Fabric.

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